“I wholeheartedly second Dan and Mary's posts. This family is not 'illegal:' what is revolting about this case is the actions of this Home Office against Selina and her children, as well as other innocent, valued members of communities across the country.

Selina is fleeing a country where women are hounded across borders, killed or enslaved, for violating misogynistic and wildly oppressive patriarchal codes of 'honour.' She - with her small daughter - is fleeing a country where female genital mutilation - a truly horrific practice - is widespread. Selina has good reason to fear that she and her daughter will be subject to the violent misogyny that exists in Ghana.

That Selina's deportation has been halted demonstrates that it is her deportation, not she and her children, that are 'illegal.' Selina has good reason to fear returning to Africa, and to deport her would be a violation of her human rights.

As a Nottingham resident, I would be personally distressed for this family to be removed from our midst. It is families like Selina's that make this town, not racist, anti-immigrant bigotry. It is absurd to draw parallels between a young, singly-parent family and street criminals. The removal of people, including children, from their lives and friends, to a place from which they have fled and where they fear for their safety, the crime here: the street crimes that people on this board have been falsely and insultingly associating with Selina and her family are entirely irrelevant to this case.

I have deep respect for those who have fought for Selina to be allowed to continue with her life here, especially in the face of all this racialised bigotry.”

“Dan
Those super rich you are on about keep this country afloat, they own the majority of the biggest firms in the uk and therefore are the biggest employers. Would you suggest we force them away with huge tax increases which would in turn lead to them putting less into the uk coffers and taking the jobs abroad? No I dont think so.
This country has a great diversity of cultures and is the better for it, but we are only a small island. We have problems already with not being able to afford drugs for our sick and heating for our old. The economy can only cope with so many people in the system. There are many other countries much larger than ours that can cope far better than we can, the reason we attract so many immigrants is our benefit system and our over lenient judicial system. We are known worldwide as the easiest place to get housed and get money for doing nothing. I blame lily livered liberals like you for letting our country down. Maybe at some time in your life when a relative is lying ill in hospital and they cannot afford the best drugs you will think of what you and your like allowed to happen to this country.”

“The reason an injunction has been granted is down to her children and their intergration into British society. Nothing else. She has broken the law, was illegally living and working in the UK. She will now be allowed to stay because of the amount of time her children have spent he, they now established this has their home. Get out of jail free card for her. Regular tatic used by immigrants. And the truth of the matter is... Who can say no to a childs safe passage through life?”

“who mentioned colour, dan? and if what you say is true, we should stop adding to the problem while we sort out those super rich”

“people like mary spend all their lives trying to prove how nice they are, how intelligent they are, how liberal they are but it's always at others expense, and i don't just mean in money. it's always the most vulnerable members of society that have to compete for scarce resources and have to live with the consequences. in the long run, such people are actually dangerous, but are too naive to realise it.”

“How sad it is that people are more afraid of an immigrant family fleeing from a horrific situation than a government that disappears thousands via its immigration and deportation system.

When someone stands up to defend valued members of their community they are considered 'disgraceful' and to be removed from their job rather than considered brave and honorable.

I have a question for all those who consider asylum seekers and other poor (normally non-white) immigrants to be the source of all evil: where are your economic arguments and your baying for blood when rich, white immigrants defraud the country of billions (much more than immigration costs us) through off-shore tax evasion? It is the government's tolerance of the super rich that is really draining this country, not nurses from Ghana!”

“Well said Andyman”

“Mary: your arguments do not hold water, why have we got a surplus of nurses for example, because so many have been put out of work, so why do we need to import them, particularly when we have so many of our own out of work.
As for crime; have you got your head in your backside; criminal gangs imported for pickpocketing in London, nearly all illegal immigrants.
Young girls from many of the Baltic states forced to come over and operate as prostitutes, them sold on to other gangs in other parts of the country, slavery was supposed to be abolished, but again illegal immigrants.
Former communist countries operating the theft of credit card details, fake documentation such as driving licenses, ID cards, and many more; all illegal immigrants.
need i go on, as there are many more? but the point is made.
Illegal immigrants operate illegally, work illegally, and as illegals are involved in many illegal activities ranging from drug smuggling, drug dealing, and many other illegal activities. This undercurrent or sub culture is responsible for a lot of the organised criminal activities, read the Police and Governments actual statistics properly, they speak for themselves.
Immigrants cost the country Billions per year, immigration holding centres, benefits, houses, legal aid, and many of the other additional costs. If you were a victim of their criminal activities, and did not receive a visit from the Police for three days, or had to wait for ten hours in hospital, would you complain? yes, undoubtedly you would be complaining very loudly.
Money saved from deporting these illegals could be spent on Police forces to ensure you received a prompt visit from them, or you would not have to wait for such a long time for hospital treatment.
Look at the realities, and the implications, as quotes such as "they are a nice family" simply do not cut it with those of us with sufficient intelligence to see the full implications of their presence.”

“Sorry Mark, I don't see your link. Who is it doing all of these crimes that you are so worried about. A quick trawl of the news in Nottingham Post, Sunday papers, and BBC news online, seem to suggest that its mostly people born and raised in UK who are committing most of the crimes that you mention, certainly anecdotally and statistically. I dont see the link that you are trying to make between crime and asylum. But you do seem to get very angry very quickly.”

“Why are people leaving this country Mary ? because we are sick of the Murders, Rapes, Shootings, Pimpings,Stabbings, and Robbings which are crippling normal society and tw@ts like you think its acceptable !”